I do not know of any such occurrence. I would like to know about it

AI could never

With people* they aren’t physically near to

I think that’s the important part

Yeah I had hoped they would aim for a bigger market reach

Idk about other countries. But in India, SMS is pretty big for businesses to send updates to the customers. Like 2FA for bank transactions, delivery tracking, govt alerts etc. Customer to customer is almost nil except on rare occasions when maybe the internet is down and you need to send an urgent text.

And I should mention that domestic SMS is free (included with any active cellular plan)